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This show is several years in the making. Can you talk a bit about its evolutionary process? [HBO] always seemed to be interested in hiring me at some point, but they never really had a spot. After I did a pilot for a late-night show a few years ago, we had a good talk, and they told me they'd call when a spot opened up. I was pretty sure I was getting the big old brush-off, but then out of nowhere [Bob Costas, host of HBO's Costas Now, moved to the MLB Network], and they called...
...point of this exercise, explained the Book of Deuteronomy, was to make sure the "abhorrent" religions of nearby peoples didn't rub off on Israelites...
...long as polytheism reigned, there were lots of those prophets. At one point, Israel contained "400 prophets of Asherah" and "450 prophets of Baal," the Bible reports darkly. Josiah's cleansing of the Temple was good strategy in a zero-sum game: the less influence these prophets had, the more...
...system actually allows the Supreme Leader to present different faces to the world. While he has strongly backed Ahmadinejad, for example, Khamenei also for a time designated one of the president's key pragmatist critics, Ali Larijani, as the point man in negotiations with the West over Iran's nuclear program...
...regime has been Khamenei's guiding principle. His response to the election, however, suggests that he's ready to break the mold of three decades of governance in the Islamic Republic. Whatever comes next, the events of the June 12 presidential election will be remembered as a turning point in Iran's revolutionary history; a moment when Ayatullah Ali Khamenei rolled the dice...